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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Thursday, June 04, 2020

“Outside Agitators Blamed for Violent Protest Wave”, a short news summary about the integrity of the protests. .

This report comes from the Straits Times (Singapore). The
story started with Tim Walz, Minnesota governor, announced Tuesday that police intelligence
had indicated that 80% of the crowd was from outside Minnesota. (Wisconsin isn’t
far away.)

Of course, some people, put on the streets by the COVID lockdown,
are just there to steal.

On the other hand, the willingness of legitimate protesters
to march and shout incessantly for their mass movement when lower-income
members of their community are repeatedly profiled and treated as serfs by some
of law enforcement.

It’s hard for white people to understand this when they see
successful blacks in the professions, politics, and even law enforcement
itself.

Law enforcement is forced to act when destruction of property and violence unrelated to the George Floyd death happens.

Monday, May 25, 2020

Fareed Zakaria came clean for CNN Sunday night May 25 at 9
PM with “China’s Deadly Secret”. The best URL is here .CNN does not reliably provide trailers in
advance of it its important documentaries the way most movie studios do. “The
Print” in India has a nice summary.

The 53-minute film was pretty balanced. He presented China’s
colorful celebrations of its 75 years of national progress in late 2019.Then came the reports of the cases of unusual
“pneumonia”, apparently as early as November.

Even before the end of the year Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist,
had posted about the cases and we all know that Chinese authorities muzzled
him.In a few weeks, he would become a
patient and die, at age 34, himself, apparently having been exposed to very
large doses.

Local officials in Wuhan had tried to protect the “New Years
Pot Luck” event, but shortly thereafter China’s central government locked down
the city.

Zakaria seems to think that, because of the politics of
China’s top-down authoritarianism, local officials were reluctant to act, until
it was too late. He is not sure that Beijing is directly to blame, or that it
fully understood the risk in early January.

Xi Jingping then put on a show, marching through Wuhan, showing that the Chinese people would overcome the virus collectively and become a stronger nation.

China claims that its authoritarian lockdowns and contact tracing kept the death toll down below that in western countries, but we don't know how reliable their numbers are. They did share the genome but have often closed off contact with outside countries on sharing all of their research.

Jim Gergaghty has an important articlein National Review
about a supposed cell connection outage at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
around Oct 6, along with a confirmed COVID case in France in mid-December from
community spread, but probably through the de Gaulle airport.

Saturday, May 23, 2020

The pseudo-documentary “Plandemic” has come into such disrepute
that I won’t give a link to it. There is a video with a short clip of a spokesperson
defending it (as an apologetic).

I’ll give a couple of detailed analyses of its
fallacies.Tara Heaele has a detailed
story (May 8) on Forbes, with a shocking cover picture of an attractive young
adult immobilized while being treated in emergency. The person of controversy is Dr. Judy
Mokovits.

Beth Skwarecki has an even more pointed refutation in LifeHacker(May 8).

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Dr. ZDoggMD, from San Francisco, talks about how the US got
this so wrong, and Asian countries were on the ball.

It’s 46 minutes.

He questions depending on cloth face masks for civilians, although
statisticians say it helps you protext other people.

He then gets into our “federal system” compared to Europe. American exceptionalism harmed us (obesity,
poor diet, racial and class divisions which cause crowded conditions).

“America is an exceptional target for this disease because
we’re so sick.”Even young people have
undiagnosed diabetes.

He does understand the rationalization of the "survivial of the fittest" idea, as articulated along with "free speech" in our country. He also talks about the misinformation that comes with our style of free speech.

He notes particularly the delayed circulatory system problems and resurgent inflammation in younger people and children.

Also, important, he thinks the public should wear surgical masks. There should be a pointed effort to have companies 3-D print them. By the way, that would mean men would have to shave their beards (for N-95's to fit). He is clean-shaven and bald in the video.

(He may be in Washington State. He mentioned both that and San Francisco.)

Monday, May 11, 2020

“Coronavirus Second Wave Is Coming: Understand What It Is About
and Prepare”, by Bjorn Andreas and Bull-Hansen.

Bjorn sits with outdoor cooking gear in a forest and talks
(17 minutes).

He predicts the second wave will have much stricter lockdowns
this fall. He advises people to leave the cities and go off the grid if they
can.(My own life means nothing off the
grid without globalization, because I have no progeny.)

He talks about the Bill Gates vaccine and says he is not an
anti-vaxxer, but he says the vaccine will not have been tested properly.

Saturday, May 09, 2020

Thoughty2, a British opinionator, offers “This Is the Next
Killer Virus that will End Humanity”

That is “Virus X” at the end of the W.H.O.’ s warning list

The most deadly possible virus would have no symptoms for
two weeks or more, and then cause a chronic degenerative illness that cannot be
stopped. And it would somehow be
supercontagious.

Imagine the mandatory germophobia this would cause.

Most viruses (and bacteria) that have this kind of contagion
have relatively short incubation periods. Relatively few are transmissible a
long time before symptoms.Novel coronavirus
is maybe moderate in incubation period time (median about five days to
noticeable symptoms).But is seems
somewhat unusually contagious (except for measles).And it hides itself in the immune system for
a while, inviting devastating relapses (cytokine storms) after about a week in
some people. And it seems capable of doing permanent damage because it attacks
endothelial cells, mostly through ACE2 receptors.

As the video (15 minutes) progresses, Thoughty2 seems to
reverse his course a couple times on whether a virus really could occur
naturally that wipes us out or sends us out on an Escape Earth spaceship.

I think a particularly diabolical virus could be a sexually
transmitted disease that then becomes an arbovirus too.Zika was like that but not severe to the
whole population (children before birth). Imagine the political consequences
had HIV turned into an arbovirus, although I don’t know if that would have been
possible biologically.

There are also prions (protein infectious molecules) which cause
nerve proteins to refit themselves into a chain and cause degeneration.Fortunately these diseases are hard to
transmit (mainly through eating animal meat). That sounds like the concept of a strangelet
in astrophysics, which could convert the Earth to strange matter of grey goo in
about two seconds.

Maybe one of the worst possibilities would be a virus with
few symptoms that makes men sterile. Remember the 2006 film “Children of Men”.I may come back to that movie later. We could
find out down the road that SARS-Cov2.Another idea is that most people have few symptoms at first but
gradually lose intellect or perhaps motor skills irreversibly even after “recovery”.We’re not completely out of the words on that
idea with SARS-Cov2 yet (on either of these two – testes have ACE2 receptors). Antibody
Dependent Enhcancement (ADE) could fit into such a paradigm and make vaccines
harder.

Update: May 11

Thought2 also offered, a month ago, "Why Coronavirus May Be a Good Thing" He says this virus wakes us up and prepare us for the possibility of a contagious virus with a much higher fatality rate (he calls this one "mild"). At 16:40 he notes stronger community and solidarity and teens helping the elderly (I could point out "the Real David Hogg" on Twitter with an unusual video today).

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